Canadian jazz pianist Oscar PetersonB次元官网网址檚 legendary career is being celebrated in a Heritage Minute.

Historica Canada released the newest clip, timed for Black History Month, in its ongoing series that highlights influential figures from across the country.

The minute-long video chronicles the seven-time Grammy winnerB次元官网网址檚 rise from a working-class Montreal family to becoming a world-renowned piano virtuoso.

It touches on his encounters with greatness, such as being dubbed B次元官网网址渢he man with four hands,B次元官网网址� and acknowledges the racism he faced at jazz gigs in the 1940s.

Peterson died of kidney failure in 2007 at the age of 82.

Both the English and French versions of the Heritage Minute are narrated by Black Canadian pianists. Oliver Jones plays the voice of Peterson in the English version while Gregory Charles handles the French.

The Heritage Minute is written by Brynn Byrne and directed by Aaron Yeger, known as co-writer and producer of the acclaimed 2015 film B次元官网网址淪leeping Giant.B次元官网网址�

Historica Canada also produced a companion video exploring the history of Little Burgundy, a Black working-class community in Montreal and the jazz culture within it. The separate clip is narrated by PetersonB次元官网网址檚 daughter Celine Peterson, who was consulted about her fatherB次元官网网址檚 Heritage Minute from its inception.

Peterson says her father received many honours throughout his career, but she believes he would be especially proud of seeing his story in a Heritage Minute.

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Peterson, who serves as producer of the Kensington Market Jazz Festival in Toronto, says the debut of her fatherB次元官网网址檚 Heritage Minute during Black History Month is significant.

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PetersonB次元官网网址檚 Heritage Minute is an especially cinematic one, which raises the question of whether his relatives have considered granting the rights for his story to a production company for a feature film.

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B次元官网网址淗aving his story told in that capacity would be natural, to a certain extent. It needs to happen, itB次元官网网址檚 just a matter of when and by whom.B次元官网网址�

Watch the Oscar Peterson Heritage Minute .

B次元官网网址� David Friend, The Canadian Press